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Northern Arizona Counties Land Economic Home Runs

At first glance, the coal counties of Northern Arizona and the movie “Moneyball” have very little in common...
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A mindset shift transforms community building in Alamosa

Five years after the City of Alamosa and its partners attended our Building Better Places Training (BBP), this mindset still permeates City Hall.
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Rigorously Human: Building Depthful Data Systems for Community Engagement

Community engagement is necessary to the success of community planning and project implementation, and the data collected through this process serves as both...

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Hamilton, MT: Six Years Later
In the wide open spaces of the west, cities are often defined by their quaint downtowns and the routes that connect them to the next urban area...
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Northern Arizona Counties Land Economic Home Runs
At first glance, the coal counties of Northern Arizona and the movie “Moneyball” have very little in common...
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A mindset shift transforms community building in Alamosa
Five years after the City of Alamosa and its partners attended our Building Better Places Training (BBP), this mindset still permeates City Hall.
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Rigorously Human: Building Depthful Data Systems for Community Engagement
Community engagement is necessary to the success of community planning and project implementation, and the data collected through this process serves as both...
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3 Years of the CO Affordable Housing Toolkit
In June 2025, Community Builders completed a three year contract for The Colorado Affordable Housing Toolkit for Local Officials (“Toolkit”). 
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Planning for the long haul: Why joint comprehensive planning pays off
Many of the challenges facing Colorado’s mountain communities, such as housing shortages, rising cost of living, and cultural division, transcend jurisdictional lines...
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Community Spotlight: Annika Kristiansen, On Living Rurally in the West End
In her own words, Annika is a yogi, trail runner, mother, and backyard chicken keeper with a thriving garden. A Telluride ex-pat, she sought out Norwood for its deep-rooted values.
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West End Vision Project Photo Essay: What Matters Most?
Between September and December 2024, the Community Builders team made five trips to Norwood, Naturita, and Nucla, the three incorporated communities in the “West End” of...
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Watt’s Next? A Guide to Re-Energizing Coal Communities
Coal transition is an enormous challenge for impacted communities. These often small, rural communities have excelled at one thing for decades…
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Colorado's Transportation Transformation: From Highway Expansion to Livable Communities
“Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.” ― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities...
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From quaint canal towns to mega blocks, how a Chinese city pretzeled my planner's brain
Shanghai is a city of extremes - it is both incredibly modern and ancient; wildly dense and charmingly quaint; a sea of asphalt and paved with waterways…
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The Economic Bases Are Loaded in Northern Arizona
Economic development leaders in Coconino, Navajo, and Apache counties have crafted a powerful metaphor to describe the region’s emerging economic strategy.…
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